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FEEDING TABLE FOR PAPER FOLDING MACHINES.

No. 347,224. Patented Aug. 10, 1886.

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RICHARD T. BROWN, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WELLINGTON DOWVNING, OF SAME PLACE.

FEEDING-TABLE FOR PAPER-FOLDING MACHINES..

3PECIFICATION forming part Qf Letters Patent N0. 347,224, dated August 1O 1886.

Application filed January 8, 1886. Serial No. 188,008. (No model.) i

To aIZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD T. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsyl- 5 Vania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feeding-Tables for Paper- Folding Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as'will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to paper-folding machinery; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the feeding'table,

as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and

pointed out in the claims.

My invention is illustrated in'the ELCCOHI- panying drawings as follows:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a paper-foldzo ing machine with my improved feedingtable attached thereto and placed in position for use. Fig. 2' is a like View with the feedingtable folded back over the folding-machine.

In both of these figures the workingparts of the folding-machine are only partially illustrated, it not being necessary to the proper illustration of my invention to show all the working parts of the folder. The feeding table in these views is such as are used on hand-feed machines. V

Fig. 3 illustrates my invention applied to a feeding-table having thereon mechanism for conveying the sheets.

My invention in no way relates to the means by which the sheets are fed to the machine,

and the illustrations show that it may be applied to either hand or power fed machines.

The construction is as follows: A represents the folding-machine and A the working parts on the top of the machine. B is the feedingtable. B is a hinged prop for supportingthe outer end of the table when it is extended for use, and a is a post on the folder for supporting the same end of the table when it is folded 4 5 over onto the machine.

The feeding-table is composed of two parts, B and B, of which B is a short section, which I prefer to bevel or miter on its lower side, so that it will lie fiat on the top of the folder,

and also lie in the same inclined plane that the main part B should occupy. The two parts B and B are hinged together by the hinge b, and the part B is hinged to the top of the folder by the hinge 11. Both of these hinges bend in the same direction, as will be seen by noting the position of parts in Fig.

ing parts of the folder, which are exposed on top of the table, and that thus these working parts are wholly protected when the machine is not in use.

Heretofore the feeding-tables of all handfed machines have been either fixed perlna- 7o nentlyin place for use, or, if detachable, they have been made so as to lift off and be laid away, or else laid on top of the machine and immediately upon the upper works. When thus laid away, the upper works of the folder were left exposed, and when laid onto them they often become injured by careless workmen piling weighty objects onto the table while so lying on the top of the folder.

Machine feeding-tables have been made so as to fold over onto the folder, (see patent to me dated December8,1885;) but in all such cases the construction was very different from what I shall here claim as my invention.

From the foregoing it will be noted that I do not intend to claim, broadly, as my invention a feeding-table so hinged to the foldingmachine that it may be turned back upon it when not in use.

The essential feature of my present inven- 0 tion is that the section B is hinged to the top of the folder, and also to the main section of the feeding-table, so that when the .feedingtable is in use the section B lies flat on the top of the folder and forms a part of the feeding-table, and when itis not in use and is folded over onto the folder the section B assumes an essentially vertical position and serves as a support to keep the main section B up off of the upper works of the folder.

Vhat I claim as new is end of the long section, to which it is attached, [0 The combination, with a paper-folding n1a above the upper works ofthefolding-machine. chine, of a feeding-table composed of the long In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in section B and the short section B, hinged topresence of two witnesses. 5 gcther at b and to the top of the machine at b in a manner substantially as shown, where- RICHARD BROWN by, when the long section is folded back over \Vitnesses: the top of the machine the short section will Rom. H. PORTER,

assume a vertical position and support the M10. K. HALLocK. 

